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Conflict in the cosmos : Fred Hoyle's life in science

While other British astronomers were specializing in narrow areas, says Mitton (astronomy, Cambridge U.), Hoyle claimed the entire celestial realm--the universe and all its contents--as his field, and proceeded to transform the discipline during the third quarter of the 20th century. Much of the insight in the biography is gleaned from Hoyle's asso再读一些...

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"Hoyle's enduring insights into stars, nucleosynthesis, and the large-scale universe rank among the greatest achievements of 20th-century astrophysics. Moreover, his theories were unfailingly stimulating, even when they proved transient. He will be remembered with fond gratitude not only by colleagues and students, but by a much wider community who knew him through his talks and writings."再读一些...